Originally published: New York : Random House, 1953
Includes index
The boy and the giant horse -- In those days Greece was like this ... -- Philip, the king, and Olympias, his queen -- Alexander grows up -- Alexander becomes king -- The beginning of the reign -- Persia, a distant country -- The great adventure begins -- Alexander wins his first great battle -- Alexander cuts the Gordian Knot, wins a second battle, and sacks Tyre -- Egypt and the Temple of Ammon-Ra -- The end of the king of kings -- Into Asia and beyond -- Roxana, Alexander's wife, and the death of Cleitus -- Elephants at the gates of India -- Mutiny -- The return -- Alexander conquers everything except himself -- The death of Alexander -- Afterwards